Funeral Hymn · Exodus

215 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 8:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
8:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 100-131 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
FUNERAL HYMN · BARS 100-101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 136, 137, 138 and 167.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 136-138 · LANDS ON BAR 139 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 167 · LANDS ON BAR 168
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 20 sections: 174 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-130.

PART H
PART M
PART AC
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTACMOAK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funeral Hymn?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Funeral Hymn hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 8:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 27 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Funeral Hymn?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 136, 137, 138 and 167.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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